Yup regarding software for the time being it’s Betaflight
I think the flight controller I picked up supports iNav as well
But currently just flashed with Betaflight, since it’s what is used on the smaller ones I’m more familiar with. I figured build this one for longer flight times and potential commercial work where GPS controlled is generally favored for a lot of things (survey farm area or other kind of survey jobs of run between a,b,c waypoints and get footage), don’t have my “Part 107” license for commercial flying yet but I don’t think passing the test would be all that hard, generally do good at fact memorizing and test taking.
Hex are slightly better for stability especially if carrying a load from what I gather and bigger props generally leads to better efficiency and can load a bigger battery on and extend flight times (5" prop quads I get somewhere between 3-7 minutes depending on flying whereas bigger rigs like this I’ve read can get 15-20minutes if tunes properly etc.)
ESCs I’m using on here are BL-Heli-32 which is closed source now but had open source roots in BLHeli-S when they switched to 32 bit controllers they decided to close up the source for whatever reason. The software to configure them and firmwares are free as in free beer though (no charge).
Something tells me theres a good reason why that nutcase isnt a tesla engineer anymore. Looking at those products, probably a lack of engineering skills lmao.
For sure, I haven’t really done anything advanced on it yet, I was using shortcut before but I needed color grading, finding it a lot more responsive so far,
You can see some stuff I have already done on my channel if you’re interested
@drone001 Time will tell but been good so far, there’s a bit of slop with the tolerances of the internals but it’s made working one handed a lot easier for something like rebuilding a drive train.
but all other electronics are in waterproof boxes and safe from the water.
